CounterSpin
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Sasha Abramsky on Trump’s New Attack on Immigrants
Who, at this point, is served when corporate media consider Trump's cruel attacks on immigrants in any context other than cruelty?
‘Monsanto Has Worked Very Hard to Discredit Me and My Work’
"It's subterfuge. It's a fraud upon the public, it's an intended fraud upon the media, and it's designed to control the narrative and control the news."
On Gun Violence, ‘We Need the Federal Government to Take Bold Steps’
"We can't continue to work in silos of doing this gun violence work, that urban areas' gun violence, domestic violence, suicide rates from gun violence, all talked about in the report, all tie together, and you have to come together as one human commun...
Ernest Coverson on Guns & Human Rights, Carey Gillam Under Attack From Monsanto
Vast majorities of Americans support serious regulation, but corporate media debate still seems to revolve around the supposed "rights" of the few, rather than the right of the many to live a life free from this scourge.
‘Black Communities Are Already Living in a Tech Dystopia’
"We can't take an ahistorical approach to technology's role in sedimenting forms of inequity and hierarchy; we have to go through this history to understand the present."
‘People Are Demanding Accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry’
"There are very real solutions to addressing the climate crisis, and they're being deployed by people around the world."
Ruha Benjamin on Race After Technology
Some examples of discriminatory design are obvious—which doesn't mean the reasons behind them are easy to fix. And then there are other questions around technology and bias—in policing, in housing, in banking—that require deeper questioning.
‘Museums Like the Whitney Are Accountable to the Communities They Claim to Serve’
"What we’ve tried to say, both as artists and as people living in the city, to the Whitney, is that, 'No, Kanders can’t be on a board of the Whitney Museum that claims to be a progressive institution, that claims to serve a public interest.'”
NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
The exclusion of Chavista voices is endemic to NPR’s coverage of Venezuela, in gross violation of the outlet’s own ethics handbook.
‘Democracy Has Become a Joke on the Island’
"The mainstream media still seems to be focused on the idea that this is all caused by a corrupt government in Puerto Rico, with no visible narrative of the colonial control behind it."